The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-07-21
..,,,Apfals.
North Caroline State Board of Agri-
culture.

Col. r. w. Wharton, LIST Congressional
District. "1
DR.. A. G. Brooks, I'd Congressional Dis
trict.
n. T.. Grant, Bird Congressional District.
Col. w. F. Green, 4th Congressional
District.
J. H. Murrow, 9Th Congressional Dis
trict.
S.. B. Alexander, 9th Congressional Dis
trict ~(elect).
A. Leazer, 7th Congressional District.
Burwell Blanton, 9Th Congressional Dis
trict.
DR.. c. D, Smith, 9th Congressional Dis
trict. .
OFFICERS.
John Robinson, Commissioner.
T. K. Bruner, Acting Secretary.
G.. w. Dabney, Jr., Chemist and Direc-
tor of Experiment Station.
John T. Patrick, General Agent 1mmi-
grafton.
TRUSTEES OF THE AGRICULTURAL AND NE
- n COLLEGE
The members of the Board of Agricul-
ture, to whom are added: :
W. S. Primrose, Wake.
G. 2. French, Fender. 80. :,
H. E. Fries, Forsyth. :
Gen. R. Barringer, Mecklenburg.
Elias Carr, Edgecombe.
STATE GRANGE PATRoNs OF H%UsBANDRY.
W. R. Williams, Falkland, Pitt county,
Master.
DR.. J. w. Seasons, Bethel, Lecturer.
w. H. Powell, Battleboro, Treasurer.
3. T.J. Ludwig, Mt. Pleasant, Secre-
tary. .~ + ~a.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Rev. VIM. Grant, jackson, n. G.
Capt. W. Fl. Powell, Battleboro,
N. T. Ridley, Boykins, Va.
THE NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS ASSOCIATION.
President-Eias Carr, Old Sparta,
Edgecombe county.
Vice Presidents-W. r. Williams, lst
Congressional District; W. A. Darden,
I'd Congressional District; G. q. French,
Sd Congressional District; w. F. Green,
4th Congressional District; II. %. Fries,
9Th Congressional District; is. Reid, 9th
Congressional District; w. II. Hobson,
9TH Congressional District; Burwen Blan-
ton, 9Th Congressional District; w. IL.
Mcclure, 9th Congressional District.
B. F. Hester, Oxford, Secretary; S.
Ohio Wilson, Vineyard, and W. p. Ben
bow, Oak Ridge, Assistant Secretaries.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
d. Reid Parker, Trinity College, A.
McIver, Oaks, D. Men. Mckay, Averas-
boro; T.. E. Polk, Raleigh, and G. Nc
Donald, Concord. ~
N. c. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
w. G. Upchurch, Raleigh, President;
John Nichols, Raleigh, Secretary.
NORTH CAROLINA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
PRESIDENT. Van Lindley, Pomona.
Secretary-S.s Ohio Wilson, Vineyard.
Treasurer. A. Lineback, Salem.
-Wilmington is on a building boom.
,-Overcoats are now in demand-at the
junk shops.
-Four, persons have suffered from
sunstroke, at Greensboro in the past week.
The crops along the line of the R. &
G.. Railroad are reported as in a fine con-
dition. ,
The water tower is now seventy feet
high. Its maximum height will be eighty
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North Carolina will be largely repre-
sented at the Inter-States Convention in
Atlanta. - a.
The millers in the Piedmont section
report the wheat of this section as Of very
superior quality.
The street sprinkling adds much.
comfort to. the pedestrian and the other
wise travelling public SC r:-;ra
DIR. Hal. Harris;Lo Wake Forest
township, lost a fine mulie5s last week ow-
ing to the extreme warm weather.
Miss Pattie, Smith, a most estimable
young lady, died at the: residence of her
mother in this city Monday afternoon at
1870 o'clock. sd1a;,A o.a.
Mr.. Jno. A. NOEL, editor of the Roc
6oro Courier, iisin the city and reports
the crops Of the Person section as in a:
promising condition. 1'
We asked Mr.. J. NJ. Wilson, of Will
sons Mills, in regard to. his crops. He
said: Il have been farming for fifty
years and have never had such a crop be-
FORE" aorz 4
The Farmers Convention of Chat
ham county meets at Pitsboro July 23d.
The people of Chatham are biohlv on